The Traveling Baby Blanket

Lots of kids have security blankets, but in our house “Blankie” has almost become an imaginary friend of sorts. My son and I pretend that Blankie talks to us, and we often translate other subjects into Blankie-terms (e.g.; we’d been talking about the Tooth Fairy recently, and when the manufacturer’s tag fell off Blankie, my [...]

The Nudder Blankee
When my youngest son Ryan was born, our neighbor (not from the redneck-magnet rental but the house on the other side of us) gave us two blankets that she’d made as a baby gift. They were almost identical except slightly different in color. As Ryan got older he developed a [...]